Two days of real playbooks for the people who run mortgage marketing. No fluff, no inspiration tour. Just the tactics, frameworks, and proof that move loan volume.
September 9-11, 2026 · Surf & Sand Resort · Laguna Beach, California
The Mortgage Marketer is the only event built end to end for the people who actually run mortgage marketing. No side track, no breakout buried on day three. Year one proved the room needed it, so we're back by popular demand.
"LOs aren't influencers or big brands. They're plumbers. Be 5-mile famous." From the stage, 2025.
We cap it at 75 on purpose. Small enough that you'll actually meet everyone who matters, in a room of marketing leaders from Guild Mortgage, Guaranteed Rate, PRMG, American Pacific Mortgage, The Money Store, SynergyOne Lending, BankSouth Mortgage, and more of the country's top-20 lenders, trading what's working right now, not what worked three years ago.
Every session ends with something you can run Monday morning. Templates, workflows, real numbers.
The AI marketing workflows producing real output right now. Not demos, not hype. What's working, and how to run it.
Track and measure the ROI so you can show the proof of what you knew all along: marketing drives loans.
Marketing leaders from top-20 lenders. Curated, not crowded. The peers you came to meet.
Marketing leaders from the country's top lenders, plus the SocialCoach team building the tools they use every day. Every session on the agenda below is led by someone on this list — hover a headshot in the agenda for their full bio.
Joe Wilson
Founder & CEO
SocialCoach
The Future of Mortgage Marketing
Kelly Yale
Chief Growth Officer
SocialCoach
Moderator: The Executive Advantage
Jon Hill
Principal Account Executive
Total Expert
An ROI Story Leadership Believes
Brandon Durham
Director of Training & Business Technology
The Employee Engagement Playbook
Eric Lescarbeau
Customer Success Manager
SocialCoach
Video Pages + Player Cards
Coleen Bogle
Chief Marketing Officer
The Money Store
The Executive Advantage
Lindsey Ricciardelli
SVP, Marketing & Business Development
American Pacific Mortgage
The Executive Advantage
Robin Clayton
Head of Product Strategy, Mortgage Data Solutions
Cotality
The Executive Advantage
Drew Gillett
VP of Marketing
Guild Mortgage
Leveraging AI to Build Scalable Marketing Systems
Jill Johnson
Marketing Compliance Manager
Loan Risk Advisors
Creating Marketing Systems Compliance Can Say Yes To
Jordan Wild
Chief Technology Officer
SocialCoach
Personalized Customer Feedback Campaigns
Ashley Musick
Director of Brand & Communications
SocialCoach
Real Marketing Wins from Leading Mortgage Teams
Moderator: From Company Brand to Content Ecosystem
Kelli Nicholson
VP of Content & Social Media
Guaranteed Rate
From Company Brand to Content Ecosystem
Ellie Krabbe
VP of Marketing
SynergyOne Lending
From Company Brand to Content Ecosystem
Kasia Stephenson
Chief Digital Marketing Officer
Paramount Residential Mortgage Group
From Company Brand to Content Ecosystem
Jessica Swink
SVP of Marketing & Digital Strategy
BankSouth Mortgage
From Company Brand to Content Ecosystem
Jelaire Grillo
AVP MarTech Strategy & Adoption
Prosperity Home Mortgage
The Adoption Framework
Every session ends with something you can run when you get home. Roundtable topics repeat throughout the conference, so you never miss the conversation you came for.
Joe Wilson
Founder & CEO
SocialCoach
Joe Wilson is the founder and CEO of SocialCoach, the social selling platform trusted by 7 of the top 20 mortgage lenders in the country. A former loan officer and mortgage technology executive with 20+ years of industry experience, Joe helps financial institutions turn social media into authentic relationships and revenue while protecting their brand. SocialCoach empowers teams to create compliant content at scale and add 20%+ to their pipeline.
The Employee Engagement Playbook: Using Video to Connect, Recruit, and Retain
Brandon Durham
Director of Training & Business Technology
Brandon Durham is a technology and learning leader in the mortgage industry who specializes in helping organizations transform the way they connect with employees, customers, and business partners through innovation, education, and emerging technology. A nationally recognized speaker, Brandon is passionate about combining human behavior and innovative technology for modern communication strategies that create more engaged teams, stronger cultures, and exceptional customer experiences. His practical, people-first approach helps organizations turn technology into meaningful business results.
Enhance Your Customer Journeys with Video Pages + Player Cards
Kelly Yale
Chief Growth Officer
SocialCoach
Kelly Yale is Chief Growth Officer at SocialCoach, leading Sales and Marketing. She built her career on the belief that technology should help people connect better, not replace the connection itself. She architected a mortgage CRM and marketing automation platform that helped drive more than $60 billion in growth, founded the fractional growth consultancy OCTO Strategies, and authored Mastering Mortgage Marketing. Speaker, podcast host, and recognized industry leader, Kelly now brings that same relationship-first approach to building SocialCoach's growth engine.
Coleen Bogle
Chief Marketing Officer
The Money Store
Coleen Bogle is the Chief Marketing Officer at The Money Store, where she leads national marketing strategy and has helped turn marketing into a powerful driver of growth, retention, and recruiting. A two-time HousingWire Marketing Leader (2023 and 2026) with more than 17 years in the mortgage industry, Coleen is passionate about building great teams, empowering loan officers, and challenging the "we've always done it this way" mindset. She believes the best marketing happens when people, strategy, creativity, and technology come together to make a real impact.
Lindsey Ricciardelli
SVP, Marketing & Business Development
American Pacific Mortgage
Lindsey Ricciardelli is SVP of Marketing and Business Development at American Pacific Mortgage. Throughout her career, she worked at creative agencies building personal brands for speakers, coaches, and authors, including Todd Duncan, Jack Canfield, and Brian Tracy, learning firsthand how executive presence drives online influence and sales. Now, with nearly 20 years in the real estate and mortgage industry, she helps leaders understand why showing up on video and social isn't optional; it's how you recruit top talent, grow your business, and lead at scale.
Robin Clayton
Head of Product Strategy, Mortgage Data Solutions
Cotality
Robin Clayton has spent 20+ years turning marketing into revenue, focusing on technology solutions and strategic thinking. She's advised mortgage professionals at all levels on creating videos and a social presence that builds real trust with prospects, partners, and recruits. A HousingWire Marketing Leader (2024) and Women of Influence (2023) award winner, Robin most recently joined Cotality as Head of Product Strategy, Mortgage Data Solutions.
Creating Marketing Systems Compliance Can Say Yes To
Jill Johnson
Marketing Compliance Manager
Loan Risk Advisors
Jill is a seasoned compliance leader who blends sharp regulatory expertise with a warm, human, and wildly effective approach to problem-solving. She turns chaos into clarity with project management know-how, building workflows, teams, and strategies that actually work in the real world. Bold, sassy, smart, sincere, freaking hilarious (obviously humble), and consistently the person who tries to elevate every room she walks into—because we are stronger, together.
Building Personalized Customer Feedback Campaigns with Reputation Management
Joe Wilson
Founder & CEO
SocialCoach
Joe Wilson is the founder and CEO of SocialCoach, the social selling platform trusted by 7 of the top 20 mortgage lenders in the country. A former loan officer and mortgage technology executive with 20+ years of industry experience, Joe helps financial institutions turn social media into authentic relationships and revenue while protecting their brand. SocialCoach empowers teams to create compliant content at scale and add 20%+ to their pipeline.
Ellie Krabbe
VP of Marketing
SynergyOne Lending
Ellie Krabbe is the VP of Marketing at Synergy One Lending, with more than 15 years of experience in the mortgage industry. Throughout her career, she has built marketing programs and teams across creative, digital, social, and technology, with a focus on turning marketing into a true driver of business growth. A passionate advocate for modern marketing, Ellie speaks about everything from AI and content strategy to personal branding, customer journeys, and the changing way consumers discover and engage with mortgage professionals.
Kasia Stephenson
Chief Digital Marketing Officer
Paramount Residential Mortgage Group
Kasia Stephenson is Chief Digital Marketing Officer at Paramount Residential Mortgage Group (PRMG), where she leads digital strategy and social enablement to help the sales team sell smarter and connect better with clients. With 18+ years in mortgage and financial services marketing, she's known across the industry for modernizing marketing operations and building brands that actually move the needle.
Jessica Swink
SVP of Marketing & Digital Strategy
BankSouth Mortgage
Jessica Swink is SVP of Marketing & Digital Strategy at BankSouth Mortgage. This mortgage marketing nerd is a professional question-asker and breaker of "the way we've always done it." She loves big ideas, smart tech, big whiteboards, LOs who want to grow, the Buffalo Bills and her dog Kona (not necessarily in that order).
Jelaire Grillo
AVP MarTech Strategy & Adoption
Prosperity Home Mortgage
Jelaire serves as AVP of MarTech Strategy and Adoption at Prosperity Home Mortgage. A champion for driving actual utilization in enterprise tech, Jelaire designs and executes high-impact rollout frameworks that align executive buy-in, sales leadership, and loan officers. She also serves as the Marketing Committee Chair and Board Member for the Mortgage Bankers Association of Metropolitan Washington, as well as Co-Chair for the Professional Women's Collective. She is passionate about actionable marketing education, team empowerment, and scalable brand growth.
Joe Wilson
Founder & CEO
SocialCoach
Joe Wilson is the founder and CEO of SocialCoach, the social selling platform trusted by 7 of the top 20 mortgage lenders in the country. A former loan officer and mortgage technology executive with 20+ years of industry experience, Joe helps financial institutions turn social media into authentic relationships and revenue while protecting their brand. SocialCoach empowers teams to create compliant content at scale and add 20%+ to their pipeline.
Agenda subject to refinement as we lock in speakers and sessions.
Oceanfront, intimate, and built for the kind of conversations that only happen when smart people are relaxed. Sessions with a Pacific view by day, the right people around you the rest of the time.
Includes all sessions, breakfast, lunch, and snacks both days, plus the welcome reception. No refunds, no transfers. When the 75 are gone, they're gone.
75 seats total · when they're gone, they're gone